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Title: Jane Emerson, Walter Emerson's wife, Los Angeles, 1935-1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935-March 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The photograph of Mrs. Emerson is in a wooden framed picture.
Photograph appears with the article, "Actor Seeks To End Ties," Los Angeles Times, 05 Jan 1935: A5.
Walter and Jane Emerson have been married since 1922, separated since December 16, 1934. They have three sons. Mr. Emerson ascertains that Mrs. Emerson and Barton Sewell have been secretly seeing each other.
Handwritten on negative: Jane. N. Emerson.
Text from newspaper caption: Jane Emerson, whose husband seeks divorce in proceedings begun yesterday.
Text from negative sleeve: 4440 Emerson, Jane + Atty. W.J. Gilbert + rich yachtsman -> Barton Sewell (MAR 25 1936 stamp) married to Leah C. Sewell double divorce 2 couples. -> Walter Emerson screenwriter + actor Box 13
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13619
ark:/21198/zz002hnvb2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Emerson, Jane N., (Jane Sewell), 1904-1988
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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